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## MB BS MRCOG FRANZCOG FRCOG KENNETH HUGH ATKINSON' s death late last year ended the career of one of Sydney' s most accomplished gynaecologists. Ken was born on 1 August 1939 in Moss Vale, New South Wales. He grew up in Armidale, where he attended The Armidale School and finished as dux of his year. He studied medicine at the University of Sydney, living at St Paul' s College and graduating with honours in 1963. He then worked at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH) and, 2 years later, became a registrar at the associated King George V Memorial Hospital for Mothers and Babies (KGV). In his second year there, he sat the membership examination for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and received the top mark in Australia. In 1968, he was appointed clinical superintendent at KGV. He single-handedly altered the whole ethos of the hospital -introducing formal resident training and running regular seminars incorporating interaction with other clinical specialities. In 1970, Ken was awarded a Joseph Foreman Fellowship. This took him to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he was surgical resident to Howard Ulfelder, one of the greatest gynaecological s

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Author

Korda, Andrew R

Publisher

Australasian Medical Publishing Company; Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.; Sydney: Australasian Medical Pub. Co., 1996-; AMPCo; Wiley; Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Pty Ltd. (AMPCo) (ISSN 0025-729X)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences